Ex-Twitter executive: Saudi dissidents should be wary of Elon Musk takeover
Source: Yahoo News
Ex-Twitter executive: Saudi dissidents should be wary of Elon Musk takeover
Michael Isikoff·Chief Investigative Correspondent
Sun, November 6, 2022 at 2:47 PM·6 min read
WASHINGTON — A former Twitter executive says that Saudi dissidents should consider dropping their use of the social media platform in light of the outside role that a prominent Saudi billionaire, with close ties to his country’s repressive government, has in the newly organized company under Elon Musk.
As part of the restructured firm, Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal — chair of Kingdom Holdings and a public ally of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, also known as MBS — has emerged as the second-largest shareholder in Twitter, with a $1.89 billion stake in the company. That has raised new questions about what the Saudis, who notoriously infiltrated Twitter and stole personal data on dissidents several years ago, hope to get in return for their investment, according to Vivian Schiller, who served as chief of global news for Twitter from 2013 to 2014.
“For dissidents or others who are operating anonymously, I would probably caution them about their continued use of Twitter,” Schiller said in an interview on the Yahoo News "Skullduggery" podcast. Such users should “take a look at the kind of information they provided [to Twitter] — cell phone numbers, etc. — when they logged in, and maybe quit the platform.”
There is no indication that Prince Alwaleed will have any direct operational role in Twitter that would give him access to the personal data of users. ...
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